Experience AIIAS,
Change Your World
A comprehensive introduction to the components of curriculum development. This course examines the process and product aspects of curriculum for schools. Students will learn the basic theory and skills of conceptualizing, designing, constructing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum. The course will include issues of curriculum change and the roles of curriculum participants and specialists in all curriculum activities. Students will create original curriculum documents within a limited scope.
4 to 6 hrs. per week
Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
Unit 1: Nature of Curriculum
Unit 2: Roles of Curriculum Participants
Unit 3: Curriculum Organization
Unit 4: The Impact of Curriculum Foundations
Unit 5: The Process of Curriculum Development
Unit 6: Classroom-Level Curriculum Planning
Unit 7: Curriculum Implementation and Change
Unit 8: Curriculum Evaluation
VENCIE B. ALLIDA, PhD
Dr. Vencie Blanes Allida is a dedicated missionary educator with 34 years of experience in teaching and educational leadership. She holds a PhD in Education with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction from the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, Philippines. A researcher and curriculum specialist, she has taught Curriculum and Instruction and research courses at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels locally and internationally, and is a two-time Research Foster Competition winner at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Jamaica.
Dr. Allida has served in various leadership roles, including elementary and academy principal, department chair, curriculum leader for master’s and PhD programs, and senior lecturer at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton. She is a peer reviewer for five international journals, an editorial board member, and a published scholar. Currently, she serves as an Associate Professor in the College of Education at Northern Caribbean University, Jamaica.
PREMA GAIKWAD, PhD
Dr. Prema Gaikwad Dr. Prema Gaikwad is a dedicated professor in the Education Department of the Graduate School at the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS). Originally from India, she has over 45 years of teaching experience, including service as a high school and college mathematics teacher at Spicer College.
She has coauthored Bible textbooks for schools titled Stories to Live By, widely used in the Southern Asia Division (SUD) and Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD). Dr. Gaikwad specializes in qualitative research methodology, has taught numerous research courses, presented at international conferences, published several articles, and developed multiple online courses for AIIAS.
